The latest Double Feature episode, Hard Rock Zombies + Loose Change, is the first to feature a guest co-host rather than an interview. This time we talked to Rebecca Watson, pictured here in the Skepchick nude pin-up calendar. You can listen to the show at the Double Feature website

Rebecca is the founder of Skipchick.org, a permanent co-host of The Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe, and creator of about a billion other things. When faced with the option of interviewing Dylan Avery for his 9/11 conspiracy “documentary” Loose Change, we decided instead to have Rebecca on for that entire section of the show. It didn’t fit format at all, but it sounded like a lot of fun.

It’s strange, of all the people we talked to on the show I was the most nervous to talk to Rebecca. Her show (along with others like Skeptically) provided the original inspiration to start podcasting in the first place. Now our tiny little show was featuring one of the most successful hosts out there, and something about that freaked me out. It tuned out to be a fantastic time though. I think it’s one of the best shows we’ve done. It’s entertaining, the sound quality is way better than any of our usual guests, and we tore Loose Change apart.

I’ve been getting emails from people who just found Double Feature and are really into it. That’s always great to hear. On the surface it’s a simple movie podcast, but I’ve always tried to inject more important things into it. The documentaries are the most obvious examples, but even just in analysis of two given films.

Because Michael and I are both atheists and skeptics, everything we do has that kind of bent to some degree. For me it’s the need to call out all the nonsense in a film. Michael on the other hand…look at his film selections. For a show with so many horror films, you’ll notice that the supernatural ones are really absent. Instead, movies like Hatchet, Hostel – even most of the slasher films – they’re are about the human element. They’re about building a scare upon something unlikely but plausible in real life. I think in that way the show not only promotes skepticism but kind of celebrates what’s real.

The other part of the feedback is that everyone wants to hear Rebecca on the show again. We’re going to finish out this year/season/52 shows and see about the next 52, so you’ll have to wait and see.

Individual track mp4s as well as a single 1.84 GB chapter marked iTunes copy of the main feature are online for free at the above address. If you’re interested in the full DVD image though, you can finally download that! Use the below torrent and burn your own copy.

Available for free, The Birthday Massacre’s 2006 Bootleg DVD is a set of twelve tracks from the Broken Minds tour. Shot, cut, and proudced by TBMChicago’s Eric Ingrum, the songs were all captured during one of the many performances he attended while helping promote the nation wide tour. After shelving the footage for an entire year, it was finally edited during the corse of a single week. Marathon editing sessions where made in an effort to complete the DVD in time to give the final copy to the band at their last show of the 2007 tour.

Only twenty-five copies were made, under the agreement that only the band, Eric, and their mutual friends would recieve them. A video showing a bit of the process and final product was posted shortly after. An incredible amount of interest in the “Making of” video eventually prompted an agreement to release the entire DVD online.

The DVD image torrent just went up, so the downloads could be a little slow for a few days. Please help us out by seeding and sharing this! If you don’t understand torrents, you can still grab all the easy mp4s from The Birthday Massacre Live DVD page on TBMChicago.

I’ll be getting up early tomorrow (10/25) to attend Music Box Massacre IV at noon. 24 hours of back-to-back horror films! This will be the most films I’ve ever seen in one sitting, beating out the first Killapalloza by three movies. Here’s the schedule:

Unfortunately we aren’t going to be able to cover it on Double Feature because of some weird scheduling stuff. Maybe we’ll record it and save it for this time next year? You’ll be getting your regularly scheduled show (The People vs Larry Flint + Jesus Camp) Thursday at 12:01am.

Should be a great time. Seems like the usual theatre rules will be pretty loose, and it’s the Chicago premiere of Midnight Meat Train! Also free energy drinks. Can you tell I’m excited? If you’re going, be sure to say hi.

A bit about the intro, Michael’s own double feature, and three sentence dream theory. We also cover japanese horror, zombie films (totally unrelated), and strong female leads. I mean, with these two movies, how could you not cover strong female leads? Download the Show: The Descent + Feast

The show has been out for a few days now (you can get it for free on the Creative Commons license so people can take anything they want from it and use it in their own stuff. As I describe on the site, “content can be copied, distributed, adapted, tastelessly brutalized, and otherwise used without any permission – under the condition that it’s credited appropriately and linked to DoubleFeature.fm. This lone condition can be waived if absolutely necessary.” You can hear the full theme above, on our myspace, or at Last.fm.

Double Feature, hosted by Eric Ingrum and Michael Koester, is podcast detailing two films per episode. Riddled with blasphemy and a humble (but vicious) sense of humor, the podcast is an experiment in film watching. Each show both hosts pick a movie they’ve seen a hundred times that the other’s never watched, and then view both movies back to back. Uninterested in actually reviewing the films, they discuss what makes them notable against an abundance of others.

There are currently three shows up. The audio setup still isn’t finalized; the recording quality will get better in the coming weeks (I promise!) The show goes up every Thursday at 2am.

I have a lot I want to talk about regarding the show, so there will be some new stuff up every day or so. Keep coming back here for more info. In the mean time, here’s some thing you can do if you want to help out:

I don’t get days like this often enough. I come bearing news. Mark your calendars.

July 25th, 2008

You know Double Feature, that podcast I keep saying will go up one day? Well, it’s got a launch date! After months and months of work, we’ve got everything prepared to go online. The podcast, website, and all the rest goes online July 25th, 2008.

Here’s the official description…

Double Feature is podcast detailing two films per episode. Riddled with blasphemy and a humble (but vicious) sense of humor, the podcast is an experiment in film watching. Each show both hosts pick a movie they’ve seen a hundred times that the other’s never watched, and then view both movies back to back. Uninterested in actually reviewing the films, they discuss what makes them notable against an abundance of others. Hosted by Eric Thirteen and Michael Koester.

Nine more days and you can listen to me embarrass myself on a weekly basis.

OH, I almost forgot. I don’t think anyone actually uses live journal anymore…but you can totally get an RSS feed of the project blog (this thing you’re reading right now) instead. Here’s the URL: